Nathan Phillips

Nathan Phillips (22 February 1954-) was a Native American activist and Omaha Nation elder who was infamously bullied by Republican teenagers during the 2019 March for Life in Washington DC.

Biography
Nathan Phillips was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1954 to the Omaha Nation of Native Americans, and he later moved to Washington DC. He served in the US Marine Corps from 1972 to 1976, and he later became a Native American rights activist who had a leading role in the 2016-2017 protests against the new oil pipeline at Standing Rock. On 18 January 2019, a group of fifty to sixty high school Republicans from Covington, Kentucky got into an argument with Black Hebrew Israelites, and Phillips attempted to break up the fight by singing the American Indian Movement powwow song and playing a drum. Phillips was harassed by the students, who did "tomahawk chop" movements with their hands, chanted, and mockingly danced; student Nick Sandmann smirked at Phillips and stared him in the eyes.